Create FAT32 on 2nd drive (OS=XP)
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Create FAT32 on 2nd drive (OS=XP)

 
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FrogOnLine
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Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2005 8:16 am    Post subject: Create FAT32 on 2nd drive (OS=XP) Reply with quote
Problem: I can't format my 2nd drive as FAT32.
I bought a new 80GB hard drive identical to my old 80GB one (This old one
will be my 2nd drive and will hold a GHOST image of first drive, etc.)
I prepared and loaded new drive from the XP CD and it works fine.
XP only allows me NTFS on on the old drive (when I use "Disk Management" in
Administrative Tools). Normal.
So I booted from a Win98 floppy (as I've done in past) and deleted a
remaining partition and rebooted
But fdisk sees my 80GB old hard drive only as 10 GB. I even booted with it
as the only drive with same result.
Before I deleted the partitions on the old drive (that same day), it was a
functioning Western Digital Caviar 80GB IDE on the same computer. The
computer is a Dell Dimension 1.8GHz - probably 3 years old. So I should be
able to see the entire hard drive in fdisk, right? And I should be able to
make one or more partitions up to about 80GB shouldn't I? I'm beginning to
question my memory.

Other info: The old drive had a small 1st partition and the remainder in one
large partition. XP would only remove the 2nd partition so I had to remove
the other using fdisk by booting from my Win98se floppy. Both drives set to
CS and used only end/master position on cable for single drive.
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Miguel Gimenez
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Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2005 4:17 pm    Post subject: Re: Create FAT32 on 2nd drive (OS=XP) Reply with quote
FrogOnLine wrote:
Quote:
Problem: I can't format my 2nd drive as FAT32.
I bought a new 80GB hard drive identical to my old 80GB one (This old one
will be my 2nd drive and will hold a GHOST image of first drive, etc.)
I prepared and loaded new drive from the XP CD and it works fine.
XP only allows me NTFS on on the old drive (when I use "Disk Management" in
Administrative Tools). Normal.
So I booted from a Win98 floppy (as I've done in past) and deleted a
remaining partition and rebooted
But fdisk sees my 80GB old hard drive only as 10 GB. I even booted with it
as the only drive with same result.
Before I deleted the partitions on the old drive (that same day), it was a
functioning Western Digital Caviar 80GB IDE on the same computer. The
computer is a Dell Dimension 1.8GHz - probably 3 years old. So I should be
able to see the entire hard drive in fdisk, right? And I should be able to
make one or more partitions up to about 80GB shouldn't I? I'm beginning to
question my memory.

Other info: The old drive had a small 1st partition and the remainder in one
large partition. XP would only remove the 2nd partition so I had to remove
the other using fdisk by booting from my Win98se floppy. Both drives set to
CS and used only end/master position on cable for single drive.

Try with a WinME floppy, the fdisk is different and I've got what you
want. Also, you can try with a third party fdisk, like the one from
Brian E. Reifsnyder (free, with source code).

Regards
Miguel Gimenez
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